The dotcoms didn't fail because of or in spite of Linux. They failed because they were pre-destined to fail. Dotcoms were setup not to survive, but to make quick money. The future? Who cares... Just make sure you spend that funding well and to the hell with the company. Expensive furniture, expensive office, expensive computers, killer monitors, incredible perks, wondrous stock options and what about profit? Well, who cares? As long as certain people can buy shares at $20 and sell them a month later at $100, everything should be fine.
Naturally, they forgot the business plans and down the drain they went.
Now you tell me, what the hell does Linux have to do with all this?
Nothing.
Whatever they used, whatever they didn't. That's not going to change a dime in the future of Linux. There will always be people that are afraid of change or just want to protect their arses. These are the managers that stick to the "bad but well known". These guys will use Windows forever.
There are also those who believe they can use their wits to pay less money and get better service. Those will use Linux in places they fell appropriate and Windows whenever necessary.
There are all kinds of companies. There will always be a market for any OS that has critical mass in the market, as it is the case of Linux and Windows.
First of all, what are you going to watch there? HDTV requires a LARGE amount of bandwidth and most broadcasters would just rather have 12 regular channels than 1 HDTV channel in a sat transponder, for instance.
One interesting note on statistics about SPAM (at least for me): I wrote a tool that sends an email back when it receives an email it doesn't know about. It the sender doesn't reply, his/her mail stays queued. I normally store those for a few days just in case someone is late in responding.
In 15 days, I got 158 pieces of spam mail. That makes an average of 10.5 spam mails/day, or 136k. If you multiply this to get yearly figures, you'll get (at least in my case): 48Mb of spam mail a year in 3832 messages! Yikes!
Shameless plug: The "mail confirmation" tool is at http://www.paganini.net/ask
Instead of 31337 W4R3Z D00dZ? I suppose there's better use of the taxpayers money than busting down teenagers that pirate games. While a lot of time is devoted to these kids, the real bad guys are out there, planning, learning to fly...
In an effort to improve our relationship with the customers, we at Microsoft will now send you free of charge a Gallon of K-Y Jelly for every Microsoft product you buy.*
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PS: Does anybody really believe Microsoft will change?
Few people realize it but NSYNC CDs have always been copy protected. People who know how to copy a CD wouldn't copy Nsync and people who like Nsync don't have a clue about how to copy a CD.
I believe yahoo is hosted at Exodus as well. I'm not really sure, but if that's the case, they may just buy Exodus and keep the infrastructure... Think about it... On these days of economic chaos, if you have a little bit of spare money in your pockets you can buy a lot for less.
(I'm just wondering here if yahoo isn't in a similarly unpleasant situation...)
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Ah, you forgot to blame Microsoft for Flight Simulator.:)
First of all, if working was fun, YOU would be paying to work, not being paid.:)
But, seriously, I've had fun jobs in the past. Sometimes, it's the work that's appetizing. Sometimes, it's the environment, with fun and interesting people.
Most of my good friends today come from those jobs. And I think they'll be my friends for life.
Unfortunately, nothing good seems to last... Today I have a job that's both uninteresting and a career dead-end. To make matters worse, the co-workers are absolutely weird. I'm yet to see such a bad mix. The cherry on the top of the ice-cream is my situation as a foreign worker in the US, that prevents me from changing jobs too easily.
Face it... It could be worse. You may not have a fun job, but at least (these days) you have a job.
Oh no, believe me, I know how to use Word pretty well (shhh, please don't tell anybody). Most secretaries I've seen do not even use the basic functions correctly (like, trying to align paragraphs with tabs and stuff like that).
The problem wasn't a feature that does not exist, but rather getting used to a new program. It's analog to what we feel when we get a new keyboard layout or switch editors.
Let's blame the knife manufacturers...
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I believe we should blame them! Without knives the hijacking would not have been possible in the first place... Blaming encryption for this event is just plain absurd...
Some anonymous coward wrote:
But if it's Microsoft software and the answer's "Microsoft," that gives them some degree of comfort?
Yes grasshopper. It is sadly true. Remember the old days motto: "Nobody has ever been fired for recommending IBM". Replace IBM with Microsoft and you get the sad picture...
Let's face it... The main problem today in the large scale deployment of linux for the desktop is not of technical nature.
Any company with a half-brained IT administrator can manage, one way or another, to provide a decent desktop using GPL and free tools (as the article proves). Some people will complain (I've participated myself in some small-scale deployment projects and the secretaries bitched for DAYS before they would acccept StarOffice) but in the end, people accept it when they realize it works just as well as windows, only differently.
The main problem is accountability. When you talk about using linux in the business environment, traditional managers twist their noses and ask "But who supports that?". They just don't care for the money (after all, it's company money, not their money), but they do want to have a fallback company or person to blame when things go wrong.
What we need is full-scale support for Linux. We need big, well-known companies providing support and some good examples of large-scale successful deployment. Only then, Mr. Conservative Manager will think of linux as a viable alternative for his business.
That's very easy to understand, it happens like that:
Company X develops a project using Broadcast 2000. Company X has an incompetent project manager (as most other companies). Incompetent manager cannot meet deadlines and starts blaming everybody and everything. Incompetent manager manages to fire some people on the blame game but gets burned in the process and gets fired too. Incompetent director (who happened to like Incompetent Manager a lot, but is now also on the frying pan) gets a lot of pressure and looks for someone to blame, only there isn't anybody around... Incompetent Director of Incompetent Company puts the blame on the tool (who decided to use this "free" tool? After all, free is always bad...) and sues the maker of Broadcast 2000.
It is sad, but stupidity and lawyers will destroy the world.
Let's also trash out all the Xerox Copiers, since they can be used for Copyright Violation. Better yet, let's destroy all tape recorders since they can be used for Music piracy! Oh god! The VCRs! We almost forgot them! Let's destroy them too! Oh yes, no CDRs will be allowed of course...
The attitude is correct IMHO. To hell with IP laws when human lifes are in danger. However, knowing Brazil from inside (as a Brazilian), I'd say money will only be shifted from the hands of the lawful IP holder to the hands of a few "selected" companies/people inside the country. Do not be fooled into thinking the people will have cheap access to these medications.
There's a project called Razor that does that. The hash generated from one message is numerically close to the hash generated from a similar message. This should defeat the 'lets add a counter to defeat the hash' fu that spammers might try.
I for myself hate SPAM. I've been able to filter out around 90% of it using simple measures (like filtering out emails without or with invalid "From:" addresses, etc). Yet, the remaining 10% ones are annoying as hell.
Got to try razor myself. Thing is: This system will only work if enough people jump in. Let's see...
Just picture yourself walking thru a dark alley in a FPS shooter with lots of real life ads. Drink Coke! Smoke This! Eat that!... If for some reason you don't like Pizza X, just your your missile launcher to obliterate their ad to bits. At the end of the game, the program would send them some info saying how many times their ad got "busted". That should give companies a real clue about their products and attitudes.
if [ "$(date '%d%m')" = "0104" ]; then
cat/dev/null >$filename
echo "Lzip operation successfull. File compressed to 0% of the original. Have a nice day"
else
echo "This program only works on april 1st. Sorry. Try again later"
fi
exit 0
I just hope I'm not stepping on somebody's IP with this.:)))
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The dotcoms didn't fail because of or in spite of Linux. They failed because they were pre-destined to fail. Dotcoms were setup not to survive, but to make quick money. The future? Who cares... Just make sure you spend that funding well and to the hell with the company. Expensive furniture, expensive office, expensive computers, killer monitors, incredible perks, wondrous stock options and what about profit? Well, who cares? As long as certain people can buy shares at $20 and sell them a month later at $100, everything should be fine.
Naturally, they forgot the business plans and down the drain they went.
Now you tell me, what the hell does Linux have to do with all this?
Nothing.
Whatever they used, whatever they didn't. That's not going to change a dime in the future of Linux. There will always be people that are afraid of change or just want to protect their arses. These are the managers that stick to the "bad but well known". These guys will use Windows forever.
There are also those who believe they can use their wits to pay less money and get better service. Those will use Linux in places they fell appropriate and Windows whenever necessary.
There are all kinds of companies. There will always be a market for any OS that has critical mass in the market, as it is the case of Linux and Windows.
First of all, what are you going to watch there? HDTV requires a LARGE amount of bandwidth and most broadcasters would just rather have 12 regular channels than 1 HDTV channel in a sat transponder, for instance.
I'd wait...
Even better...
:)
Just get the exact same setup but point the fan down. Drill the holes on the underside of the mouse and you got yourself a... Hovermouse!!
Hello
One interesting note on statistics about SPAM (at least for me): I wrote a tool that sends an email back when it receives an email it doesn't know about. It the sender doesn't reply, his/her mail stays queued. I normally store those for a few days just in case someone is late in responding.
In 15 days, I got 158 pieces of spam mail. That makes an average of 10.5 spam mails/day, or 136k. If you multiply this to get yearly figures, you'll get (at least in my case): 48Mb of spam mail a year in 3832 messages! Yikes!
Shameless plug: The "mail confirmation" tool is at http://www.paganini.net/ask
Instead of 31337 W4R3Z D00dZ? I suppose there's better use of the taxpayers money than busting down teenagers that pirate games. While a lot of time is devoted to these kids, the real bad guys are out there, planning, learning to fly...
Not too hard?
I think it may be impossible. You're forgetting:
1) Decoys
2) More decoys
3) Even more decoys
4) Foliage
5) Line of sight
6) Rain
7) Fog
8) Snow
Am i forgetting something here?
If big brother depends on Oracle to retrieve and consolidate your data, rest assured your privacy is safe...
:)
(*) Requires product registration.
PS: Does anybody really believe Microsoft will change?
...than copy a Nsync CD. :)
Few people realize it but NSYNC CDs have always been copy protected. People who know how to copy a CD wouldn't copy Nsync and people who like Nsync don't have a clue about how to copy a CD.
Oh well...
:)
I believe yahoo is hosted at Exodus as well. I'm not really sure, but if that's the case, they may just buy Exodus and keep the infrastructure... Think about it... On these days of economic chaos, if you have a little bit of spare money in your pockets you can buy a lot for less.
(I'm just wondering here if yahoo isn't in a similarly unpleasant situation...)
Ah, you forgot to blame Microsoft for Flight Simulator. :)
First of all, if working was fun, YOU would be paying to work, not being paid. :)
But, seriously, I've had fun jobs in the past. Sometimes, it's the work that's appetizing. Sometimes, it's the environment, with fun and interesting people.
Most of my good friends today come from those jobs. And I think they'll be my friends for life.
Unfortunately, nothing good seems to last... Today I have a job that's both uninteresting and a career dead-end. To make matters worse, the co-workers are absolutely weird. I'm yet to see such a bad mix. The cherry on the top of the ice-cream is my situation as a foreign worker in the US, that prevents me from changing jobs too easily.
Face it... It could be worse. You may not have a fun job, but at least (these days) you have a job.
Oh no, believe me, I know how to use Word pretty well (shhh, please don't tell anybody). Most secretaries I've seen do not even use the basic functions correctly (like, trying to align paragraphs with tabs and stuff like that).
The problem wasn't a feature that does not exist, but rather getting used to a new program. It's analog to what we feel when we get a new keyboard layout or switch editors.
I believe we should blame them! Without knives the hijacking would not have been possible in the first place... Blaming encryption for this event is just plain absurd...
Some anonymous coward wrote:
But if it's Microsoft software and the answer's "Microsoft," that gives them some degree of comfort?
Yes grasshopper. It is sadly true. Remember the old days motto: "Nobody has ever been fired for recommending IBM". Replace IBM with Microsoft and you get the sad picture...
Let's face it... The main problem today in the large scale deployment of linux for the desktop is not of technical nature.
Any company with a half-brained IT administrator can manage, one way or another, to provide a decent desktop using GPL and free tools (as the article proves). Some people will complain (I've participated myself in some small-scale deployment projects and the secretaries bitched for DAYS before they would acccept StarOffice) but in the end, people accept it when they realize it works just as well as windows, only differently.
The main problem is accountability. When you talk about using linux in the business environment, traditional managers twist their noses and ask "But who supports that?". They just don't care for the money (after all, it's company money, not their money), but they do want to have a fallback company or person to blame when things go wrong.
What we need is full-scale support for Linux. We need big, well-known companies providing support and some good examples of large-scale successful deployment. Only then, Mr. Conservative Manager will think of linux as a viable alternative for his business.
That's very easy to understand, it happens like that:
Company X develops a project using Broadcast 2000. Company X has an incompetent project manager (as most other companies). Incompetent manager cannot meet deadlines and starts blaming everybody and everything. Incompetent manager manages to fire some people on the blame game but gets burned in the process and gets fired too. Incompetent director (who happened to like Incompetent Manager a lot, but is now also on the frying pan) gets a lot of pressure and looks for someone to blame, only there isn't anybody around... Incompetent Director of Incompetent Company puts the blame on the tool (who decided to use this "free" tool? After all, free is always bad...) and sues the maker of Broadcast 2000.
It is sad, but stupidity and lawyers will destroy the world.
I Agree!
Let's also trash out all the Xerox Copiers, since they can be used for Copyright Violation. Better yet, let's destroy all tape recorders since they can be used for Music piracy! Oh god! The VCRs! We almost forgot them! Let's destroy them too! Oh yes, no CDRs will be allowed of course...
This is just ludicrous...
The attitude is correct IMHO. To hell with IP laws when human lifes are in danger. However, knowing Brazil from inside (as a Brazilian), I'd say money will only be shifted from the hands of the lawful IP holder to the hands of a few "selected" companies/people inside the country. Do not be fooled into thinking the people will have cheap access to these medications.
I truly hope I'm wrong.
Yes, I always new Microsoft would destroy the internet one day! Either by incompetence or by... incompetence (what else?). :))
I for myself hate SPAM. I've been able to filter out around 90% of it using simple measures (like filtering out emails without or with invalid "From:" addresses, etc). Yet, the remaining 10% ones are annoying as hell.
Got to try razor myself. Thing is: This system will only work if enough people jump in. Let's see...
Have phun.
I'd be out of ammo most of the time... :)
#!/bin/bash
filename=$1
if [ "$(date '%d%m')" = "0104" ]; then /dev/null >$filename
cat
echo "Lzip operation successfull. File compressed to 0% of the original. Have a nice day"
else
echo "This program only works on april 1st. Sorry. Try again later"
fi
exit 0
I just hope I'm not stepping on somebody's IP with this. :)))